I used to buy from Spink's and Seaby's, but that was 30 years ago. Used to Telex money to London.
Technology has changed somewhat.
Now make major purchases from Noble Numismatics in Sydney, either over the counter, or from public auction, and occasionally, other major Australian auctions.
Noble Numismatics have records of almost all World auctions since 1970, including British European and American, and more recently, Asian.
Noble Numismatics would have one of the most significant reference libraries of any coin dealer in the World.
Perhaps over 5,000 numismatic book references in their library. A large number of their references are not even found in the National Library of Australia.